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Fashion can give us a language for dissent.
Second, we need to create the space for what I call "managed dissent."
Encouraging dissent is a rebellious notion because it goes against our very instincts, which are to surround ourselves with opinions and advice that we already believe or want to be true.
And that's why I talk about the need to actively manage dissent.
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
The Mall is the greatest civic stage in this country for dissent.
But just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection in ways that people didn't understand.
Basically this was also a major outbreak, a culture of dissent, a culture of basically non-conformism, which was not known before.
Because it's going to be very difficult for them to dissent knowing that 24 hours after this is going to be on the public space, and this is in a certain way going to be a political crisis."
Over and over throughout history, people in power have used fear to silence the truth and to silence dissent.
Conversely, even more importantly, it is a realm of privacy, the ability to go somewhere where we can think and reason and interact and speak without the judgmental eyes of others being cast upon us, in which creativity and exploration and dissent exclusively reside, and that is the reason why, when we allow a society to exist in which we're subject to constant monitoring, we allow the essence of human freedom to be severely crippled.
This is in 2010 in Uganda, working on a solution that allowed local populations to avoid government surveillance on their mobile phones for expressing dissent.
Otherwise, dissent and investigative journalism are going to become even more difficult in even more places.
Surround yourself with people who challenge you, and create a culture that actively encourages dissent.
This work will not always be easy, but former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall has told us, "We must dissent.
We must dissent from the indifference.
We must dissent from the apathy.
We must dissent from the hatred and from the mistrust.
We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better."
And what O'Brien knows is that once this thought is accepted, critical dissent is impossible.
The potential for similar situations, in which authorities use their powers to mobilize society against a false threat, still exists today— but so does the capacity of reasoned dissent to combat those false beliefs.
He wouldn't have granted the cart, and he had a very interesting dissent.
It makes you face the issue: are you for the people's right of dissent in a time of war, or for the constitution being compromised in the name of "national security"?
Eventually, Robespierre (the leader of the committee) and his cronies trump up charges, have a show trial and get rid of the dissent.
Dissent, yes; undermining our country during these times is really ridiculous!
The Brits and The Americans fighting amongst themselves showed that cultural differences will breed a bunch of dissent and angst in situations where survival is at stake.
I realized the punks embraced dissent in the form of doing nothing, and embracing it.
Jan is like most Che Guevarra-loving undergraduate Marxists I know, and I agree completely with the frustrating lack of a cohesive politicized youth movement (in the US)to provide an outlet for angst, and dissent from the current regime, etc. but the manifesto of the Edukators isn't particularly compelling.
The film does contain kernels of truth and does package the ideas in an entertaining way, but by allowing no room for dissent, it is merely preaching platitudes to the choir.
Emil spread anger and dissent everywhere but no one actually did anything about this...so far, so good.
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